The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... hope and pray , it may defcend to late pofte- rity and your flourishing youth , and that of your excellent Dutchefs , are happy omens of my wifh . It is obferved by Livy and by others , that some of the nobleft Roman families retained a ...
... hope and pray , it may defcend to late pofte- rity and your flourishing youth , and that of your excellent Dutchefs , are happy omens of my wifh . It is obferved by Livy and by others , that some of the nobleft Roman families retained a ...
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... hope I have translated closely enough , and given them the fame turn of verfe which they had in the original ; and this , I may fay without vanity , is not the talent of every poet : he who has arrived the nearest to it , is the ...
... hope I have translated closely enough , and given them the fame turn of verfe which they had in the original ; and this , I may fay without vanity , is not the talent of every poet : he who has arrived the nearest to it , is the ...
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... hope the best , that they will not be condemned ; but if they should , I have the excufe of an old gentle- man , who , mounting on horfeback before fome ladies , when I was prefent , got up fomewhat heavily , but de- fired of the fair ...
... hope the best , that they will not be condemned ; but if they should , I have the excufe of an old gentle- man , who , mounting on horfeback before fome ladies , when I was prefent , got up fomewhat heavily , but de- fired of the fair ...
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... hope , I am right in court , without renouncing my other right of felf - defence , where I have been wrongfully accufed , and my sense wire - drawn into blasphemy or bawdry , as it has often been by a religious lawyer , in a late ...
... hope , I am right in court , without renouncing my other right of felf - defence , where I have been wrongfully accufed , and my sense wire - drawn into blasphemy or bawdry , as it has often been by a religious lawyer , in a late ...
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... hope to mollify the fullen bridegroom . She takes her topics from the benefits of poverty , the advantages of old age and ugliness , the vanity of youth , and the filly . pride of ancestry and titles without inherent virtue , which is ...
... hope to mollify the fullen bridegroom . She takes her topics from the benefits of poverty , the advantages of old age and ugliness , the vanity of youth , and the filly . pride of ancestry and titles without inherent virtue , which is ...
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Страница 37 - ... when the reason ceases for which they were enacted. As for the other part of the argument, that his thoughts will lose of their original beauty by the innovation of words; in the first place, not only their beauty, but their being is lost, where they are no longer understood, which is the present case.
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Страница 26 - In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Romans Virgil...
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Страница 31 - Tales the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally distinguished from each other; and not only in their inclinations, but in their very physiognomies and persons.
Страница 309 - Because thou can'st not be My mistress, I espouse thee for my tree : Be thou the prize of honour and renown ; The deathless poet, and the poem, crown. Thou shalt the Roman festivals adorn, And, after poets, be by victors worn...
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